GMC 2003 Sierra - Manual (Page 21)

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or the safety belts!
With safety belts, you slow down as the vehicle does.
Vou got imore time to slop. You stop over more distance,
and your Strongest bonss take the forces. That's why
safety bells make such good sense.
Questions and Answers About
Safety Beits
Won't I be trapped in the vehicle aCter an
accident If fm wearing a safety boll?
Vou ссиШ Ьё - whe&ier you're wearing a safely
belt Of not. Bui yoLi can unbuckle a safety belt,
even if you're upside down. And your chance
of being conscious during and alter an accident, so
you СЙГЛ unbuckle and get oul, la much greater if
you are betted.
Q: If my vehicle has a|r bags, why should I have to
wear safety belts?
A: Air bags are In many vehicles loday and will he in
most of them in the lulune. But they are
jupplemental syalems only: so they work wiih
safety bolts - nol instead of them. Every air bag
system ever offered for sale has required the use of
safely belts. Even if you're in a vehicle that has
air bags, you still have to buckle up to gat the mast
protection. That's true net only in frontal collisions,
but especially In side and other collisions.
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